A former in-house attorney for Walmart Inc. said he knew in February 2017 that his career at the Bentonville retailer was coming to an end when he refused to make changes to a memo he had written years earlier about a bribery investigation in Mexico. read more >
A group of plaintiffs’ attorneys, most of whom were involved in a controversial 2015 class-action suit, were recently awarded $2.8 million in fees for a class settlement against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. read more >
Arkansas attorneys are bracing for a surge in bankruptcy filings as a result of the financial upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic, and they aren’t alone. read more >
Robert Lewis saw warning signs during his short time as a director of Quapaw House Inc., the Hot Springs nonprofit organization that acquired the assets of scandal-plagued Preferred Family Healthcare a year and a half ago. read more >
The deletion of nearly 46,000 text messages was key to a Lonoke County jury awarding $14.1 million in February to a group of farmers who did business with Turner Grain Inc. of Brinkley and its trading partner K.B.X. Inc. of Little Rock. read more >
As the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on people and the economy, attorneys are bracing for a flood of lawsuits in its wake. read more >
A federal grand jury in Arkansas has charged the sisters, who are all in their 70s, with cheating the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of millions of dollars intended for minority farmers who had suffered discrimination in USDA programs. read more >
Matt Robinson still had questions before his 2015 purchase of a troubled funeral home in Jacksonville, but he went through with the deal anyway. The decision would be costly. read more >
Gary Beck doesn’t know for certain if his multiple myeloma is linked to his neighbor, a Baxter International plant just blocks away in Mountain Home. read more >
A recent Pulaski Circuit Court judgment could serve to disinherit the widow of Little Rock businessman Michael Lasiter from much of her share of his estimated $50 million estate. read more >
Allan Gates didn’t plan on making a career practicing environmental law. read more >
A painful loss in a long dispute with the federal government forced changes in Rhea Lana Riner’s consignment sale business plan — and some of them have been positive. read more >
In 2017, Clark County challenged routine fees that appeared on its AT&T phone bills and received class-action certification for other counties in Arkansas that used AT&T. read more >
Donna Herring, a former Camden real estate agent, was sentenced last week to 41 months in federal prison for orchestrating an infamous fake will that came to light at the end of 2016. Her sister, brother-in-law and daughter were all sentenced last week for their parts in the scheme. read more >
The Delaware bankruptcy of Springdale’s NanoMech Inc. has taken a bizarre cloak-and-dagger turn: Former CEO Jim Phillips, under oath in September, cited “national security” when refusing to answer questions about 46 transactions that its top financial officer knew only as the “CIA arrangement.” read more >
The $2.9 million sale of a Benton County custom blinds company has left wreckage in its wake, with the buyers filing for personal bankruptcy and the sellers suing the deal’s broker, alleging fraud. read more >
A couple wounded last month in a mass shooting at a Texas Walmart filed suit against the Bentonville retailer, becoming the latest shooting victims to sue a business for failing to protect them. read more >
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law said last week that it is starting a Veterans Legal Services Clinic. read more >
Two of Arkansas’ largest retirement funds are looking for law firms to represent them in securities class-action lawsuits, which could mean huge paydays for the firms but not for the funds. read more >
The $12.5 million class-action judgment against a New Jersey man and his business will stand after the Arkansas Supreme Court decided last month not to review the case. read more >
